This story is from June 6, 2020

19 kids test positive at Chennai children’s home

Twenty-two people, 19 children and three staff, have tested positive for Covid-19 at a government children’s home on Beach Road in Tondiarpet.
19 kids test positive at Chennai children’s home
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CHENNAI: Twenty-two people, 19 children and three staff, have tested positive for Covid-19 at a government children’s home on Beach Road in Tondiarpet.
The children and the staff have been shifted to the communicable disease hospital in the zone and are undergoing treatment. A corporation official said they were all stable and had only mild symptoms.
The government-run social defence home housed 81 children and 12 staff.
Abandoned children below 18 were shifted there by the department. It has now been converted into a quarantine centre with one doctor assigned to check on them every day.
A security guard of the home showed symptoms of Covid-19 and was tested at an urban primary health care centre. After he tested positive on June 2, samples from all the children and the staff at the centre were sent for tests.
“Nineteen children tested positive. But we shifted all the children who showed even mild symptoms to Covid care centres at the zone as a precautionary measure. The remaining without any symptoms have been housed at the home itself that has been converted into a quarantine centre. We are checking on them every day. We have also provided them with a special diet and immunity-boosting tablets. They have a centralised kitchen. We are montioring them regularly,” said an official.
The samples from others who tested negative will again be collected as per protocol and adequate treatment will be provided, the official said.
The home has two blocks and children from one block have tested positive. The corporation has instructed sample collection from all children homes and old age homes in the city as a precautionary measure.
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